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Speaker at the Cabinet Office event "Annual Meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Platform for SDGs for Local Development" to be announced

~ MOBILE CRM USING LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION CONTRIBUTES TO DISASTER RESEARCH.

UPWARD, whose mission is to "make mobile workers smarter," will be speaking at the Annual Meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Platform for Local Government SDGs on September 2, 2020, hosted by the Cabinet Office, and will introduce its efforts to support local governments.
UPWARD joined the Platform for Local Government SDGs in July 2020. UPWARD joined the Public-Private Partnership Platform for SDGs for Local Governments in July 2020, and is working to further promote local government development through public-private partnerships. As part of our efforts to support local governments through public-private partnerships, we are pleased to announce that we will be speaking at the Annual Meeting on the theme of "Building a location-based disaster investigation system and introducing an activity management system.

SUPPORT FOR DISASTER-STRICKEN AREAS USING MOBILE CRM "UPWARD

In the wake of the torrential rains in July 2020, we provided UPWARD licenses free of charge to Hitoyoshi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kuma Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, and Sagara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, in cooperation with System Forest Co.
In the Kumamoto Earthquake that occurred in April 2016, UPWARD and Salesforce(*) were used to support on-site survey and issuance of disaster victim certificates in Nishihara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, which suffered extensive damage.
https://www.systemforest.com/case/case_12.html
https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/ja_jp/www/documents/customer_stories/nisiharamura.pdf
(*) UPWARD is salesforce.com's support efforts in the disaster-affected areas.
   Please click here for more information on the details of our support.

What is the Public-Private Partnership Platform for Local SDGs?

The Cabinet Office has established the Public-Private Partnership Platform for SDGs for Regional Development
as a forum for public-private partnerships to deepen partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders, with the aim of promoting domestic implementation of the SDGs and leading to further regional development.
( From the website of the Public-Private Partnership Platform for Local SDGs, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan )
UPWARD is working for local development by providing a system that utilizes location information free of charge to support disaster-stricken areas in the event of a disaster. UPWARD is also sharing case studies in order to support more local governments.

ABOUT UPWARD

UPWARD IS A SALES ENGAGEMENT SERVICE THAT UTILIZES ADVANCED LOCATION-BASED TECHNOLOGY TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT AND RECORD SALES ACTIVITY DATA IN CRM TO OPTIMIZE THE SALES ACTIVITIES OF SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN THE FIELD. BY AUTOMATICALLY OVERLAYING ACCUMULATED SALES ACTIVITY DATA AND CRM DATA ON A MAP AND AUTOMATICALLY NOTIFYING OPTIMAL APPROACH DESTINATIONS, UPWARD SUPPORTS THE FORMULATION OF STRATEGIC SALES PLANS UTILIZING CRM DATA.

About Us

name of company

UPWARD, Inc.

Location

26F Marunouchi Eiraku Building, 1-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

representative

RYUSUKE KANEKI, REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO

Establishment

March 2002

capital stock

100 million yen

Business

DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISION OF UPWARD SALES ENGAGEMENT SERVICE

Press Contact

PR TEAM, CORPORATE GROUP HEADQUARTERS, UPWARD CO.

Tel.

03-6897-3683

Mail

pr@upward.jp

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